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Research and Markets: ICT Investment Trends in the Retail Industry - Enterprise ICT Spending Patterns through to the End of 2015
[November 14, 2014]

Research and Markets: ICT Investment Trends in the Retail Industry - Enterprise ICT Spending Patterns through to the End of 2015


DUBLIN --(Business Wire)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3m5r5m/ict_investment) has announced the addition of the "ICT investment trends in the retail industry - Enterprise ICT spending patterns through to the end of 2015" report to their offering.

This report presents the findings from a survey of 171 retailers regarding their Information & Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how retailers currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications and consulting.

The report illustrates the core technologies enterprises are investing in, including business intelligence, green IT & virtualization, and cloud computing. The survey also highlights the approach adopted by retailers to purchase technology. Through The survey, the report aims to provide better insight to ICT vendors and service providers when pitching their solutions to retailers.

In particular, t provides an in-depth analysis of the following:



  • Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2014 in terms of their overall size.
  • Appreciate how IT budgets are allocated across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting.
  • Learn how IT money is being spent in areas such as the data centre, applications, IT management and the network.
  • Gain an understanding regarding which ICT functions retailers are interested in outsourcing.
  • Identify retailers' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as business intelligence, green IT & virtualization, and cloud computing.
  • Learn about the drivers that are influencing retailers' investments in each technology category.
  • Establish how retailers IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category.
  • Gain insight into how retailers plan to change their ICT budget allocations across various segments within a technology category.
  • Understand the vendor mindshare for various core and advanced technology categories.
  • Provides insight into retailers' preferred buying approaches.
  • Comprehend the business and IT objectives that retailers are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies.
  • Understand the factors that are influencing retailers' decision to select an ICT provider.

Companies Mentioned

  • Amazon web services
  • ATandT
  • BT
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • Deutsche Telekom (News - Alert)/T-Systems
  • Google
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Information Builders
  • JasperSoft
  • Microsoft (News - Alert)
  • Microstrategy
  • Oracle
  • Orange
  • Pentaho
  • Rackspace
  • Salesforce.com
  • SAP
  • SAS (News - Alert)
  • Tibco Spotfire
  • Verizon
  • VMware

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3m5r5m/ict_investment



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